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Organised by the British Museum, the
National Museum of Denmark, and the Museum für Vor- und
Frühgeschichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Discover the Viking world in this major
exhibition – the first at the British Museum for over 30 years.

Swords and axes, coins and jewellery, hoards, amulets and
religious images show how Vikings created an international network
connecting cultures over four continents. At the centre of the
exhibition will be the surviving timbers of a 37-metre-long Viking
warship, the longest ever found.

Discover the world of the Vikings in this major
exhibition – the first at the British Museum for over 30 years.

The Viking Age (800–1050) was a period of major change across
Europe. The Vikings expanded from their Scandinavian homelands to
create an international network connecting cultures over four
continents, where artistic, religious and political ideas met.

The Vikings’ skill in shipbuilding and seafaring was central to
their culture and achievements, and at the heart of the exhibition
will be a 37-metre-long warship. Found in 1997, and dating to
around 1025, it is the longest Viking ship ever discovered. Many
other new discoveries, including part of a mass grave of Viking
warriors, will be on display for the first time showing how our
understanding of the Vikings is still being changed by new
excavations and recent research.

The exhibition will also present personal objects, including
jewellery, amulets and idols, which help to reveal more about how
the Vikings saw themselves and their world. Exquisite objects,
including the magnificent Vale of York Hoard, demonstrate the
global reach of the Viking network of trade, plunder and power – a
network that left a lasting legacy in countries from Ireland and
the UK to Russia and Ukraine.

Enter a world of warriors, seafarers and conquerors to discover
the many fascinating aspects of a history that is both strangely
alien yet remarkably familiar.